English Dictionary

allowance

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈlaʊəns/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting / Acknowledgment. / An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose

日本語の意味

許可、認可、容認すること / （一定額の）手当、給付金、配分された額 / 割り当て、認められた分け前

The manager gave her allowance to start the project despite the tight schedule.

マネージャーは厳しいスケジュールにもかかわらず、彼女にプロジェクトを始める許可を与えた。

意味（1）

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance

意味（2）

Acknowledgment.

The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.

意味（3）

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose

her meagre allowance of food or drink

意味（4）

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

to make allowance for his naivety

意味（5）

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.

Tare and tret are examples of allowance.

意味（6）

(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

意味（7）

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

意味（8）

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Approval; approbation.

[…] gave allowance where he needed none

意味（10）

(obsolete) License; indulgence.

this Allowance for their Transgressions

意味（11）

(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

allowances （ plural ）